Friends forever....!!

Hey everyone....

Todays card is a fun one made using the super cute set "Wheek wheek, wheek" 

(co-ordinating dies also available) from "Gerda Steiner Designs".

I wanted to create a fun pile of lettuce for the little guinea to be amongst so I stamped, coloured and cut multiple lettuce leaves to put all around him....(all images coloured with Copic)

The background was done using a few different colours of distress oxide ink with a stripe stencil. 

Using some WOW opaque white embossing powder I heat set the sentiment on a die-cut stitched strip. 

To finish it off I added a touch of clear sparkle sequins.... 

I just love a little bling on my cards!! 

I hope you like my latest Gerda Steiner inspiration!!

Happy crafting, hugs Ashlee. 

Exciting news..... Like a MANE-IAC!!

Hey everyone....

I have some VERY exciting news to share with you all, I have joined the fantastic design team at "Create a smile"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here I am with my very first card as an official member of the CAS family.....

When I received my order of new CAS stamps I just had to create a jungle theme card but I also wanted to incorporate an embossed background with the fabulous Blossom stencil so the idea for my card all stemmed from that....

You can find all the instructions on how I created this card over at the Create a smile blog, hop on over and check it out!! 

    

A little tip for today, stencils aren't just for ink blending....use your embossing ink pad and then heat emboss with a powder for an amazing result. 

Create a smile products used : Clear Fine ferns, Clear Fur real and Blossom stencil.

Happy crafting everyone.... 

Hugs Ashlee. 

Hey....!!

Hey everyone....

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend, 

It's an absolutely beautiful day here today.... sun shining!!

Im popping in to share with you my latest card using one of my favourite brands "Heffy doodle"... they have super adorable stamps, definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen them before!! 

The cute images I have used on this one is from the set called "Hello squeak heart" and I thought they would be perfect to use on a hello card for a crafty friend!!

To create the background of the card I used the stencil "Candy store" and inked it with some distress oxide ink squeezed lemonade. 

The central panel on the card is also inked with distress oxide squeezed lemonade and some wild honey then spirited with water for a fun splotchy effect. 

How cool is the sentiment "Hey" die... I just love it!! 

I wanted the mice to be having a little conversations so I used the "whatcha sayin" stamps with the "whatcha sayin" dies for speech bubbles. 

Of course I finished off the card with sequins from the lovely "hbbrittneylee" etsy store. 

Hope you like my latest Heffy creation, happy crafting Ashlee.

Fabulous....!!

Hey everyone....

I had a little play time in my craft room last night and I really wanted to test out the Altenew brush markers. I used an awesome mixed media stamp called "Ocean scribbles" from "Uniquely Creative" and heat set it with Metallic Gold rich embossing powder from "WOW".  

It was so fun colouring in all the background with markers, I really like the result they give!

After colouring in all the images I used some distress oxide ink - Ground espresso around the edges and then splattered the base with opaque white paint. 

The large flower is also a die from Uniquely Creative, once I die cut the two flowers out of the set I heat set them also with the same WOW gold embossing powder and then popped the "Fabulous" sentiment on top with some foam tape. 

To finish it all off a touch of "Crystal clear" sequins from "Hbbrittneylee" etsy store. 

Thanks for stopping by, Happy crafting....

Hugz Ashlee

Hello astronaut....!!

Hey everyone....

Im up on the "Gerda Steiner" blog today with this card I have made using the cool set "Blast off"....

This set is such a fun one to create space themed cards, perfect for male birthdays and greetings!! 

To create this card I used some designer paper from Altenew's new 6x6 paper pack celestial and then cut out some clouds using the "stitched cloud border" die from "Uniquely Creative" with white cardstock and vellum. 

I coloured and cut two of the cute little aliens, the awesome little astronaut and the flag then added them onto the card base with some foam tape for added dimension. 

A touch of pretty sequins to add some bling finished off the card. 

I hope you like my latest Gerda card inspiration, 

Happy crafting, Ashlee

CDD new release....!!

Hey crafters.....

Have you been over to "Craftin Desert Divas" to check out the new release yet??!!

If you haven't I highly recommend you go and check them out because the release is full of lots of super cute new stamp sets!!

I've got a couple of cards to share with you....

This first one is using the "Panda-bilities" set and oh boy oh boy is it adorbs!!

For the background I used the plaid part out of the stencil "sorted shapes 2" and inked it with distress oxides ink. The shaker portion is made with the "inside scalloped circles" die and filled with the pretty sequin mix "couture". 

For my second card I used the "Love your mug" stamp set along with a couple of extra items that match perfectly, stencil "Coffee time" and sequin mix "coffee break".

Using three different colours of Altenew cube inks I stamped one of the sentiments from the love your mug set multiple times then used the stencil with some distress oxide inks to create a fun background for my main images. 

The sequins from coffee break were a perfect finishing touch!!

I will have some more inspiration to share with you soon using more of these new release pieces so keep an eye out...

Hugz Ashlee